Boxoffice barometer (1944)

ducer; Edward Small. Director: Allan Dwan. Original: Not set. Screenplay: Not set. This is a sequel to “Abroad With Two Yanks,” and depicts some more adventures of the two incorrigibles, this time in Paris. Valley of the Moon Cast; Not set. Producer: Samuel Bronston. Director: Not set. Original: Jack London. Screenplay: Not set. The screen adaptation of Jack London’s popular novel of romance and adventure in the great outdoors. A Walk in the Sun Cast: Dana Andrews, Producer: Samuel Bronston. Director: Lewis Milestone. Original: Harry Brown. Screenplay: Robert Rossen. Dana Andrews plays a noncommissioned officer who is forced to take command of his unit when all of the officers are killed as the Yanks take a beachhead in Italy. The innate resourcefulness of the average American soldier is portrayed in this film through the medium of Andrews who successfully leads his buddies through harrowing experiences. UNIVERSAL Accidental Hero Cast: Not set. Producer: Gene Lewis. Director: Not set. Original: Robert Gerson. Screenplay: M. Coates Webster. A comedy about a returning service man. Babes on Swing Street Cast: Ann Blyth, Peggy Ryan, Andy Devine, Leon Errol, Anne Gwynne, Kirby Grant, June Preisser, Alma Kruger. Producer: Bernard Burton, Director: Edward Lilley. Original: Brenda Weisberg. Screenplay: Howard Dimsdale and Eugene Conrad. A group of poor youngsters obtain scholarships to an institute of music but cannot afford to pay the minimum fee required. They secure the use of a hall and convert it into a night club for teensters. After many setbacks they finally stage their floor show and it is so successful they make enough money to enter the music school. Beyond the Pecos Cast: Rod Cameron, Eddie Dew, Fuzzy Knight, Jennifer Holt, Ray Whitley, Eugene Stutenroth, Robert Homans. Producer: Oliver Drake. Director: Lambert Hillyer. Original: Not set. Screenplay: Not set. Two young westerners are feuding over ranchlands on which oil has been discovered, and over a girl they both love. When a gang of crooks plot to get the rich land for themselves, the girl pursuades the two men to patch up their quarrel and save the property. They join forces and after a long chase, fast riding and gunplay, the thieves are routed. Bowery to Broadway Cast: Maria Montez, Turhan Bey, Susanna Foster, Jack Oakie, Donald Cook, Louise Allbritton, Andy Devine. Producer: John Grant. Director: Charles Lament. Original; Not set. Screenplay: Not set. The story revolves around the rivalry between two Bowery showmen at the turn of the century. Each tries to outdo the other in presenting a more novel entertainment which serves to Introduce several song and dance acts. A galaxy of the studio’s stars appears in the film. Can't Help Singing Cast: Deanna Durbin, Robert Paige, David Bruce, Akim Tamiroff, Leonid Kinsky, Ray Collins. Producer: Felix Jackson. Director: Frank Ryan. Original Screenplay: Lewis R. Foster and Frank Ryan. The story of an impetuous girl during the gold rush days of ’49 who traveled across the country to find the man she was forbidden to see and arrived at her destination in love with the man who had brought her westward. The Cat Creeps Cast: Not set. Producer-Director: Ford Beebe, Origrinal: Not set. Screenplay: Gerald Geraghty. A murder mystery in which a killer terrifies a town but meets his match in a clever sleuth. The Climax Cast: Susanna Foster, Turhan Bey, Boris Karloff, Thomas Gomez, Gale Sondergaard, George Dolenz, Jane Farrar. Producer-Director: George Waggner, Original: Edward Locke. Screenplay: Curt Siodmak. Boris Karloff, as an opera house physician, is using his hypnotic powers to keep Susanna Foster from making her debut in an opera which had been sung by his murdered sweetheart. But Susanna’s love for a music student, Turhan Bey, is the stronger force which overcomes the hypnotic spell. Dancing in the Sky Cast: Not set. Producer-Director: Charles Barton. Original: Manny Seff and Fritz Rotter. Screenplay: Ben Markson. Dead Man's Eyes Cast: Lon Chaney, Jean Parker, Paul Kelly, Edward Fielding, Acquanetta. Producer: Will Cowan. Director: Reginald Le Borg. Original Screenplay: Dwight V. Babcock. A blind artist learns his sight can be restored through an operation whereby the cornea of a dead man’s eyes is transplanted to his own. His sweetheart’s father makes a will which donates his eyes to the artist, and when the old man is found murdered, suspician points to everyone but the slayer. The Don Returns Cost: Turhan Bey. Producer: Paul Malvern. Director: Not set. Original: Not set. Screenplay: Edward T. Lowe. A romantic drama with a Latin background. Enter Arsene Lupin Cost: George Korvin, Ella Raines, George Dolenz, J. Carrol Naish, Gale Sondergaard. Producer-Director: , Ford Beebe. Screenplay: No credits set. It happens in England. A romantic jewel thief follows a girl and steals her emerald to keep her from being murdered by her plotting relatives. He gets the jewel and the girl but Scotland Yard gets him. Fairy Tale Murder Cost: Gloria Jean, John Qualen, Keefe Brasselle, Bill Goodwin, Sheldon Leonard, Jack Grimes, Douglas Croft. Producer-Director: Charles David. Original: Not set. Screenplay: Not set. Gloria Jean lives with her uncle, John Qualen, in the rear of his pawnship. To shield her from the world he won’t permit her to associate with the neighborhood boys who use his basement for band rehearsals with instruments he’s loaned them. When a valuable Stradivarius disappears and a murder is committed, Gloria learns about the realities of life and about the people closest to her. Her new knowledge nearly results in death. Frisco Sal Cast: Susanna Foster, Turhan Bey, Alan Curtis, Andy Devine, Colette Lypns, Thomas Gomez, Samuel S. Hinds. Producer-Director: George Waggner. Original Screenplay: Curt Siodmak, Gerald Geraghty. Susanna Foster arrives on the Barbary Coast seeking news of the murder of her brother. She becomes a singer in Turhan Bey’s music hall and he falls in love with her. Alan Curtis, mysterious owner of a rowdy saloon, feuds with Bey to keep him away from Susanna and she is told that Turhan is the murderer. Following many battles between the two men, the singer learns that Bey is innocent, because there was no murder committed — Curtis is her brother. The Fugitive Cast: Gloria Jean, Alan Curtis, Frank Craven, Frank Fenton, Grace McDonald, Vivian Austin, Minna Gombell, Lon Chaney. Producer: Roy W. Neill. Director: Reginald Le Borg. Original: Not set. Screenplay: Not set. The story of a gangster, befriended by one woman, betrayed by another and loved by a third. The last girl is blind, and her faith in the man is so strong it sees him through the ordeal of facing the police when his past catches up with him. Here Come the Co-Eds Cost: Bud Abbott, Lou Costello, Martha O'Driscoll, Peggy Ryan, Charles Dingle. Producer: John &ant. Director: Jean Yarbrough. Original: Not set. Screenplay: Arthur Herman. Abbott and Costello invade a campus, bringing music, dancing and an assortment of antics that involve themselves and everybody else in uncollege-like confusion. I'll Remember April Cost: Gloria Jean, Kirby Grant, Milburn Stone, Samuel S. Hinds, Jacqueline De Wit, Edward Brophy. Producer: Gene Lewis. Director: Harold Young. Original: No credits set. Screenplay: No credits set. An innocent man is cleared of murder charges through the efforts of his young daughter and her two radio-broadcasting friends, one of whom finds the real killer and loses his heart to the lady in distress. Invitation to Death Cast: Basil Rathbone, Nigel Bruce. ProducerDirector: Roy William Neill. Original: Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's "The Empty House." Screenplay: Bertram Millhauser. Another in the series of Sherlock Holmes pictures with Basil Rathbone as the able detective and Nigel Bruce as his assistant, Watson. Jungle Captive Cast: Otto Kruger, Amelita Ward, Phil Brown, Vicky Lone, Rondo Hatton, Jerome Cowan. Producer: Morgan B. Cox. Director: Harold Young. Original: Not set. Screenplay: Not set. A mad scientist who learns the secret of reviving the dead, steals the body of a so-called ape woman from the morgue and revives it. He imprisons his secretary and uses her as a means of transferring her blood to the ape creature so she becomes a lovely human. He is about to make the final operation of transferring the brain, when the ape woman reverts to normal state and strangles him. Lady on a Train Cast: Deanna Durbin. Producer: Felix Jackson. Director: Charles David. Original: Leslie Charteris. Screenplay: Not set. A modern mystery comedy, the action of which takes place on a train where a murder has been committed. Men in Her Diary Cost: Not set. Producer-Director: Charles Barton. Original: Cary Shaw. Screenplay: Elwood Ullman and Bradford Ropes. A romantic story concerning a woman whom men could not resist. Merrily We Love Cast: Not set. Producer: Not set. Director: Not set. Original: Paul Francis Webster and Dorian Otvos. Screenplay: Dane Lussier. A romantic comedy. The Mummy's Curse Cast: Lon Chaney, Peter Coe, Kay Harding, Martin Kosleck, Virginia Christine. Producer: Oliver Drake. Director: Leslie Goodwins. Screenplay: No credits set. Set in the swamps of the bayou country is this wierd story of an Egyptian archeologist who searches for two mummies believed to be buried there. A construction company unearths the mummies who come to life and murder follows murder until they are finally returned to their burying places. BOXOFFICE BAROMETER 13